East Bay SFist Sarah L doesn't care about the stupid Bay Bridge being closed down this weekend!
As we mentioned here before, the Bay Bridge eastbound will be closed Labor
Day weekend. For those of us who live East of the Edenic S.F., here are some
cultural offerings on this side of the Bay.
Saturday, September 2 - Old Time Relijun and Trumans Water play the Stork Club in Oakland. Old Time Relijun "blend primitive swamp stomp 'n swagger meets gutsy f***ked up free jazz and throat singing punk gospel;" all three sound appealing. Trumans Water are from San Diego and have a song called "Aroma of Gina Arnold," the Gina Arnold, Bay Area rock critic whose questionable relevance and navel gazing made for great letters to the editor ... kinda like Joel Selvin, but readers reviled Gina more.
Also on Saturday, F*** that Motherf*****g Snakes on a Plane business, "Blue Velvet" screens at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley in a double bill with "Notorious." Admission is $4 for UC Berkeley students and members and $8 general. That would be 2 to 4 Pabst Blue Ribbons at the Stork Club, depending.
After the jump -- Sunday and Monday in the East Bay.
Sunday, September 3. We're pretty intrigued by the pseudo-disability seminar going on in Hayward. It apparently is free.
The 6th Annual Oakland Magazine. It would be a bit embarrassing for a publication called Oakland Magazine to name a "best annual cultural event" that didn't take place in Oakland. On the other hand, it's a bit embarrassing for the Convention and Visitors Bureau's marketing effort to be relying on praise
from a new glossy with relatively low distribution that appears to exist to sell granite kitchen tops and real estate agents. At least San Francisco Magazine has the NPR program guide and melodramatic feature articles about yuppie moms.
Monday, September 4. Oakland's Rock Paper Scissors hosts a free potluck BBQ and several bands of the indie punk variety. There will surely be some of those bicycle-wielding invading hipsters that are twisting the East Bay Express' knickers this week.
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Actually, what's got the EBE's knickers in a twist is what's got a lot of people of color ticked off and it's all too real. Hooray for art but please don't act like there isn't a very real counter tale to tell.
Certainly there is something to the issue, from the point of view of lower income people of color, middle and upper middle class people of color, lower income white people, the sensationalistically defamed "hipsters," displaced or worrying-about-being displaced small business owners ... there are a lot of points of view regarding the issue. But the article itself, from the title on through to the last page, relied heavily on sensationalism, played loose with facts and attributions of statements, and was big on gross generalizations. I have trouble taking the article seriously, not the issue it is about.
I do however, think that the article was better than Mr. Downs' music writing. Perhaps he aspires to be the next Gina Arnold.